WE HAVE A CREW ON THE WAY AND WE'LL BRING YOU MORE AT 5:00. NOW TO A DEVELOPING STORY, NEIGHBORS IN ONE SOUTHWEST HOUSTON COMMUNITY ARE SHOCKED AND WORRIED AFTER A CABDRIVER WAS FOUND SLUMPED OVER AND SHOT TO DEATH. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M DOMINIQUE SACHSE. LAUREN IS OFF TODAY. I'M KEITH GARVIN. HIS BODY HAD BEEN THERE FOR HOURS AND NOW POLICE ARE ON THE HUNT FOR HIS KILLER. RYAN KORSGARD IS LIVE AT THE CAMDEN VANDERBILT APARTMENTS ON BROMPTON WITH THE DETAILS. RYAN? Reporter: POLICE TELL US RIGHT NOW THERE ARE NO LEADS. HERE'S WHAT THEY BELIEVE HAPPENED. THEY BELIEVE THERE WERE TWO GUYS WHO ACTUALLY CAME WALKING UP THE STREET AND THEN RIGHT OVER THERE, IN FRONT OF THAT GATE, THEY BELIEVE THEY ROBBED THE MAN, SHOT HIM AND THEN SIMPLY KEPT WALKING. FOR ABOUT EIGHT HOURS, THE 63-YEAR-OLD CABDRIVER SAT SLUMPED OVER DEAD IN THE FRONT SEAT OF HIS CAR. IT WAS PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY OF THE CAMDEN VANDERBILT RESTAURANTS ON CAMDEN IN SOUTHWEST HOUSTON. BETWEEN 10:50 P.M. AND 11:00 P.M., TWO SUSPECTS WALKED UP OFF THE STREET AND APPROACHED THE CABDRIVER. THERE WERE SOME TYPE OF A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE SUSPECT AND THE CABDRIVER AND HE WAS SHOT. SUSPECTS FLED ON FOOT NORTHBOUND FROM THIS LOCATION. Reporter: JUST AFTER 7:00 THIS MORNING, SOMEONE SPOTTED THE DRIVER AND CALLED POLICE. INVESTIGATORS SAY APARTMENT COMPLEX SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CAPTURED PART OF THE CRIME. THEY BELIEVE THE DRIVER HAD JUST DROPPED OFF A PASSENGER WHEN HE WAS SHOT. SOMEBODY OUT THERE SAW SOMETHING. THAT'S THE PERSON WE NEED TO TALK TO. Reporter: HE SAYS PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CALLED POLICE TO REPORT GUNSHOTS FIRED THURSDAY NIGHT, BUT HE SAYS POLICE POSSIBLY DIDN'T HAVE AN ADDRESS WHERE THE SHOTS HAD COME FROM. POLICE BELIEVE THIS ALL STARTED AS A ROBBERY, A CRIME OF OPPORTUNITY IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD NOT FAR FROM THE MED CENTER. VERY SHOCKING. I WENT ON OVER, I SAW SOME GUY SLUMPED OVER IN A CAB. OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T SEE THAT A LOT, SO, YES, IT'S VERY DISTURBING. IT'S VERY SCARY BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX, IT JUST LOOKS GORGEOUS AND IT'S IN A GREAT AREA. Reporter: POLICE TELL US THEY'RE NOW LOOKING AT SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX AS WELL AS VIDEO FROM INSIDE THE CAB. LIVE IN SOUTHWEST HOUSTON TONIGHT, I'M RYAN KORSGARD, KPRC LOCAL 2. RYAN, THANK YOU. THE VICTIM WAS A CONTRACT DRIVER FOR UNITED CAB FOR 11

HOUSTON -

Police say a cab driver was found shot to death in the driveway of an apartment complex near the Texas Medical Center.

Houston police believe the cab driver, identified as 52-year-old Donalvon Odell Rhyne, was shot at around 10:45 p.m. Thursday. He was discovered at around 7 a.m. Friday. Investigators say Rhyne was found dead slumped over in the driver's seat of a United Cab at the Camden Vanderbilt Apartments in the 7300 block of Brompton.

Houston police said Rhyne had been approached by two black men believed to be in their mid to late 20s. The men violently struggled with Rhyne in an apparent robbery and then shot him, according to police.

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"Between 10:50 p.m. and 11 p.m. two suspects walked up off of the street and approached the cab driver. There was some type of a struggle between the suspects and the cab driver. And he was shot. The suspects fled on foot northbound from this location," said HPD Homicide Investigator Sgt. W. L. Meeler.

Houston police said the victim had just dropped off a passenger, when it appears two people approached the cab, shot and robbed the driver and walked away. Investigators believe this was a crime of opportunity caught on apartment complex surveillance video and cameras in the cab.

"Somebody out there saw something," Sgt. Meeler said. "That's the person we need to talk to."

Witnesses told police they heard shots fired.

"I'm very shocked about this," said Diane Broussard, who works nearby. It's very scary because you look at this apartment complex -- it just looks gorgeous and it's in a great area."

United Cab said its heart goes out to the contract driver's family. The company said Rhyne had been a driver on and off with United for 11 years.

Police say this an ongoing investigation. If you can help solve the crime, please call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. You can remain anonymous and could earn a cash reward.

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